"Even if we assign the entirety of the recession to George Bush, as Obama argues, job growth in the private sector in this recovery amounts to only 86,300 jobs per month — not even enough to keep up with population growth, which requires roughly 125,000-150,000 new jobs per month to just tread water." [Ed Morrissey]

"If gaffes mattered that much, Obama’s mistake-prone rival, Mitt Romney, would never have made it through the GOP nomination process." [Michael Scherer]

"When asked if a lack of federal support for those programs has hurt the economy Boehner said 'no.' He blamed the sluggish economy on 'government continuing to spend money we don’t have.'” [John Stanton]

NY-13

State Senator Adriano Espaillat said the Amsterdam News never contacted him about an endorsement interview before it slammed him for not coming in for one. [Celeste Katz]

A reporter notes Amsterdam News' publisher was escorted down the aisle during her 2010 wedding by Rep. Charlie Rangel. [Colby Hamilton]

Bloomberg's spokesman said five credentialed reporters were arrested. [Hunter Walker]

"There isn't any evidence, at least that we can find, that Browne's narrowly defined assertion is incorrect." But the Press Club takes objection to what the NYPD spokesman Paul Browne is implying. [John Del Signore]

An unarmed Harlem man recalls being stopped-and-frisked by police officers while walking by a church. [RNN]

Watergate Anniversary

"Watergate was a brazen and daring assault, led by Nixon himself, against the heart of American democracy: the Constitution, our system of free elections, the rule of law." [Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward]